Wouldn’t be the first time.

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Thanks

Me too, want to know.

Yeah I came to comment this. She is our current incredibly bad and corrupt minister for economy & energy. Her ministry was openly asking the gas lobby what policy to implement to best push out renewables. Official calls for her resignation have registered already. This protest must be seen in this light.

Big boys, big toys.

Toivottavasti mitään polttoainetuhlausta pahempaa ei ole tapahtunut.

Okay, not a Linux bug in the kernel, but one that has existed in the Enlightenment window manager E16 since 2006

😐

I, too, always have difficulties calling these thingies flowers! Blossom is actually the prefered term for trees I believe? Some of them just don’t look flowery at all.

What caused the rapid fall? Wind?

Microsoft survived on inertia. Windows was the default. Office was the default. GitHub, after the acquisition, became the default forge for software teams. That kind of position lets a company coast for a long time.

That’s how I remember it from before I switched to Linux.

Just one off-topic niggle: when Github went M$, Git was already a big thing, and other big Sourceforges supported it, maybe most notably GitLab (I considered moving from GH to GL but GL was already way too corporate). Sure, MS envisioned GH to be “the default”, but it never really was. The biggest, probably, but never the default.

And if you think that all repositories are on GH, check how many of those are actually just mirrors.

I hate how the author frames Linux as “cheap”.

I don’t like it either but it’s definitely an aspect. Why should I continue paying money for (or even pirate) something that exploits me and makes my life worse? Linux is cheap and legal. E.g. I can use it to experiment with old hardware without needing to make a cost-benefit evaluation first.

“Free” has a double meaning that should be pointed out each time one says FOSS, but “as in beer” is not a bad thing.

Windows is “free”, too, if you never activate it.

OK now I’m stumped because it’s so long I actually used Windows. I rcently installed Windows on some work computers but I had to enter the code on the laptop or I couldn’t even finish the installation (I think). AFAIU that code was purchased with the laptop. Did I get that wrong?

And in what way is usability hampered if I don’t activate it?

Hallitus teki ulkopoliittiseen selontekoon päivityksen. Sen johtopäätös on, että Suomi rakentaa nyt eurooppalaisempaa Natoa.

Tämä on artikkelin varsinainen sisältö, ja hyvä näin.

Miksi otsikon piti taas nostaa Trumpin esille? No, ehkä minäkään en olisi muuten luennut sitä.

Tänään eduskunnalle antamassaan ulko- ja turvallisuuspoliittisen selonteon päivityksessä Yhdysvaltoja pidetään ”ennakoimattomana” ja sen retoriikkaa ”kovana”.

Kuulostaa itsestäänselvyydeltä, mutta liian moni EU-maa seuraa vielä “USA, partnerimme”-politiikkaa.

Here are Images Voyager Took.

I have no idea how to sort them by recency; I’m guessing it’s not sending such expensive data anymore, but what are the most recent (and furthest) images?

Voyager 1 was launched in 1977 - just before the Reagan era. Coincidence?

Also, and I’m still just guessing here, it’s probably the culmination of the space race to the moon minus the pressure to be there before the Russians.

In other words, NASA’s Golden Age.

That isn’t true (unless you just arbitrarily zoom into a point in time that fits your narrative - and refuse to see the bigger picture esp. wrt USA). And more importantly, it is not a counter-argument to what the other commenter said.

I don’t know why so many people think fish is vegetarian

It isn’t. But it’s relatively common to be vegetarian + fish. And historically fish didn’t really count as meat which is why Christians were allowed to eat it during pre-Easter “fasting”.

I’m sorry you’re being served fish and other water animals as “vegetarian”, that’s fucked up.

Imma guess monthly

I had to remind myself about Milei’s policies… I mean I know he’s a hapless* Trump copycat** but I was thin on the details:

Milei advocates minimal government, focusing on administering justice and ensuring security, with a philosophy rooted in life, liberty, and property, and free market principles. He criticizes socialism and communism, advocating economic liberalization and restructuring of government ministries. He opposes Argentina’s Central Bank and current taxation policies.
Economically, Milei is influenced by the Austrian school, and admires former President Carlos Menem’s policies.

There we are. Austerity, the favorite cover-up for “just doing my rich donor buddies bidding”. And unfortunately I don’t even need to look up the Austrian school. And it ties back nicely to the movie you mention.

* Some time ago when the economy was already tanking he sang live in a rock band. The article was titled “Burning Down The House”

** TBF Trump did not invent Trumpism, he’s just the most prominent

PS & BTW

Donkey (and horse) meat is a relatively common ingredient in e.g. Salami. Yes the economy is fucked up but people eating donkey meat is probably not the best indicator. And as someone else pointed out, the article talks about selling donkey meat in large cities, not the eating per se.

I’m honestly not super clear on what “progressivism” means for him, but even so it’s pretty bad.

The speech is ostensibly bemoaning the progressive movement of the early 20th century, but the New Republic’s Matt Ford has a fantastic piece about how his history is completely wrong. Thomas claims that the American progressive movement was founded by Wilson and imported from Germany, neither of which is true. It was a reaction to corporate abuses and corrupt governance and horrific things like child labor and environmental destruction. It was an organic, grassroots movement, but Thomas says it was a top-down push to suppress individual liberties and put the government in charge of everything. That is a false, libertarian counterhistory that has no basis in reality. The justice also asserts that progressivism led to the worst atrocities of the 20th century, including Nazi Germany, Stalinism, and Mao, and draws a straight line from that to progressivism today.

I think I’ve been listening too much to a certain type of podcast recently. I distinctly remember hearing about Thomas’ early years and how he was a bastard basically from the start, but no detail.

I think he was elated that he was allowed to join the club of rich white assholes and once that happened, there was no more discrimination in the US, systemic or otherwise 🪄

It’s not human rights violations against its own people and bombing schools that will bring this government down. It’s fuel prices.

Yes, thank you.